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Acknowledgements / Thanks
Cartoons and other graphics: Thank you to Cathy Wilcox (SMH),
Augustina Jones, Eric Evans, Vivien Carson, Swan, Parker & Hart.
[Please contact The LEAD Group for permission to reprint.]
Editors: Elizabeth O'Brien and Noela Whitton Typists: Carol
Bodle, Mangala Vadivale, Shirley He, Noela Whitton
Loan of laser printer: Desktop Workshop
Desktop publishing: Desktop Workshop Distribution: Thanks to
everyone who photocopies, distributes or promotes this journal, the
information in it, or other information to support the aims of The LEAD
Group.
Quotable Quotes
In 1786, Benjamin Franklin wrote:
"The Opinion of the mischievous Effect of Lead is at least Sixty
Years old; and you will observe with Concern how long a useful Truth may
be known and exist, before it is generally received and practiced
on."
In 1925 in a paper on tetraethyl lead published in the Journal of
the American Medical Association, Alice Hamilton, one of the foremost
industrial physicians of this century, and her colleagues from the
Workers' Health Bureau said:
"The evidence so far available seems to show a real danger of
chronic lead poisoning connected with garage work when ethyl gasoline is
used and a possible danger to the public from lead dust in the streets
of large cities ... The discharge of. .. [lead] particles ... which fall
to the ground ... on crowded streets of cities, might constitute a far
from negligible danger".
Richard Neville argued in World Series Debating on ABC TV, August
1993:
"The Tibetans ... invented meditation, humour and Other World
Series Debating. They spent their time raising their consciousness,
while we spend our time raising the lead levels in our children's blood.
In Australia,. we're completely obsessed with building roads that wreck
the bush, just so we can reach Surfer's Paradise. Well, the Tibetans,
they've invented a thousand ways to reach Paradise without the Surfers
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